An Elegantly Dressed Woman Struggling with a Lion

1780/1785

Francesco Guardi

Artist, Venetian, 1712 - 1793

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink on blue paper with white heightening

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 16.9 × 12.7 cm (6 5/8 × 5 in.)

  • Accession

    2008.42.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Henry Oppenheimer [1859-1932], London; (his sale, Christie's London, 10 July 1936, no. 90a); Bittner Collection; Janos Scholz [1903-1993], New York; Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw, New York, by 1960; (Yvonne Ffrench Gallery, London, 1968); Jacques Petit-Hory, Paris [1929-1992] (not in Lugt); (with Jean-Pierre Selz, Paris); Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Beverly Farms, MA; purchased 2008 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1911

  • Venetian Painting of the Eighteenth Century, Burlington Fine arts Club, London, 1911, no. 80.

1957

  • Disegni veneti della collezione Janos Scholz, Venice, 55, no. 95.

1958

  • The Guardi Family: Selected from American Museums and Collections, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, January through February, 1958, no. 40.

1968

  • Old Master Drawings, Yvonne Ffrench, London, 1968, no. 25.

1971

  • Venise au XVIII siècle, Orangerie, Paris, 1971, no. 109.

1991

  • Italian Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL, 1991 - 1992, no. 34.

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 109.

Bibliography

1911

  • Exhibition of Venetian Painting of the Eighteenth Century. Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1911: 60.

1926

  • Detlev, Baron von Hadeln. "Some Unpublished Figure Drawings of Francesco Guardi." Old Master Drawings 1 (June 1926): 3.

1943

  • Pallucchini, Rodolfo. I Disegni del Guardi al Museo Correr di Venezia. Venice, 1943: 41, no. 34.

1960

  • Mills College Art Gallery. Venetian Drawings 1600 - 1800, from the Collection of Janos Scholz. Oakland, 1960: under no. 36.

1964

  • Scholz, Janos. "Visiting Venetian Drawings at the National Gallery." The Art Quarterly XXVII (1964): 189, 192, fig. 4.

1971

  • Venise au dix-huitième siècle: Peintures, dessins et gravures des collections françaises. Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, 1971: 92.

1975

  • Morassi, Antonio. Guardi, I Disegni. Venice, 1975: 122-123, no. 257, fig. 260.

1991

  • Italian Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL, 1991: 140-143.

Inscriptions

in brown ink on verso: slight sketch of old woman's head; by later hand in graphite, upper right verso: 11212(?)

Wikidata ID

Q64562390


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